http://www.hypnotherapy-training.uncommon-knowledge.co.uk Our hypnotherapy training: what's happening now Fri, 09 May 2008 11:03:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This short article suggests that magic is not just about where your eyes are focused but where you mind is focused that will determine whether you'll see how a trick is done. When people experience wide awake opened-eye hypnosis they can be looking but not seeing as their attention may ... http://www.hypnotherapy-training.uncommon-knowledge.co.uk/magic-tricks-of-the-eye/ It's often said that some fears are 'hard-wired' and some we learn. For example most babies do not automatically fear public speaking (a fear which has to wait to be learnt later!) but they may have innate hard wired fears of, say, spiders and snakes and heights. This article: More ... http://www.hypnotherapy-training.uncommon-knowledge.co.uk/fear-of-snakes-and-spiders/ This brief article caught my eye/nose: Perceptions: Another Name Smells Sweeter It seems we not only rate smells with nice names as more pleasant (than the same smell with an unpleasant name) but our brains actually process the experience of those smells differently. So language which molds association and expectation ... http://www.hypnotherapy-training.uncommon-knowledge.co.uk/a-smell-by-any-other-name/ It was great to see our hypnotherapy students this last Sunday work with one another on their first supervised client sessions. Although on this initial session they were working with one another they were still working with real issues and it's a great rehearsal for when they start working with ... http://www.hypnotherapy-training.uncommon-knowledge.co.uk/hypnotherapy-students-have-their-first-client-sessions/ People who report being the happiest in life tend to be the very same people who report being the most miserable at other times: (see Staying Sane: How to Make Your Mind Work for You by Raj Persaud.) True happiness would consist of contentment and meeting ones basic emotional needs ... http://www.hypnotherapy-training.uncommon-knowledge.co.uk/will-i-be-happy/ We know that learned helplessness can be a major factor in the development and maintenance of clinical depression Feeling helpless in one situation can produce feelings of helplessness in another (even if in fact you no longer are, in reality, helpless. This could explain the research in this article ... http://www.hypnotherapy-training.uncommon-knowledge.co.uk/social-form-of-bullying-linked-to-depression-anxiety-in-adults/ I was on a slot with BBC Radio Lancashire last Tuesday who did a section of their afternoon show on teenagers and depression. The broadcaster Sean McGinty has three teenagers of his own so he was really interested in understanding why they display such strange behaviour at times. We talked about ... http://www.hypnotherapy-training.uncommon-knowledge.co.uk/teenagers-and-depression/ I was saddened to see on the UK news of a vulnerable man of twenty two with a mental age of eighteen months who has been murdered by two (it seems) strangers. Idealists’ state that there 'is good in everyone' but psychologists think there is 'potential good in the vast ... http://www.hypnotherapy-training.uncommon-knowledge.co.uk/psychopathic-children/ Ok so I admit to watching TV while I ate breakfast today. They were talking about a study from Birmingham University that showed if you thought about your last meal in detail, you ate less. The facilitators took two groups of students and asked one group to recall their journey ... http://www.hypnotherapy-training.uncommon-knowledge.co.uk/hypnotherapy-diploma-students-get-the-full-picture-about-weight-issues/ People spend lifetimes fantasizing about winning fortunes or having amazing positive events happen to them with a feeling that once these happy events come to them they will be sorted forever and 'happy from here on in.' Research consistently shows that experiencing super one off triumphs isn't what really produces and ... http://www.hypnotherapy-training.uncommon-knowledge.co.uk/the-things-we-expect-will-bring-us-lasting-joy-rarely-do/